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1. Cybertext: Perspectives on Ergodic Literature

   Cybertext explores the aesthetics and the textual dynamics of digital literature and its many diverse genres such as hypertext fiction, computer games, computer generated poetry and prose, and collaborative Internet texts such as MUDs. However, instead of insisting on the uniqueness and newness of "electronic writing" or "interactive fiction" (phrases which mean very little) the author situates these new literary forms within the larger and much older field of "ergodic" literature, from the ancient Chinese I Ching to the literary experiments of the OuLiPo. These are open, dynamic texts where the reader must perform specific actions to generate a literary sequence, which may vary for every reading. Aarseth constructs a theoretical model that describes how these literary forms are different from each other, and demonstrates how the widely assumed divide between paper texts and electronic texts breaks down under careful analysis.

   Patricia Tomaszek - 21.09.2010 - 10:59

2. Hyperworks: On Digital Literature and Computer Games

   This study investigates the effects of digitization on literature and literary culture with focus on works of literary fiction and other kinds of works inspired by such works. The concept of "hyperworks" refers to works intended to be navigated multisequentially, i.e. the users create their own paths through the work by making choices. The three articles that make up the dissertation include analyses of individual works as well as discussions of theoretical models and concepts. The study combines perspectives from several theoretical traditions: narratology, hypertext theory, ludology (i.e. game studies), sociology of literature, textual criticism, media theory, and new media studies. This study investigates the effects of digitization on literature and literary culture with focus on works of literary fiction and other kinds of works inspired by such works. The concept of “hyperworks” refers to works intended to be navigated multisequentially, i.e. the users create their own paths through the work by making choices. The three articles that make up the dissertation include analyses of individual works as well as discussions of theoretical models and concepts.

   Jill Walker Rettberg - 14.02.2011 - 14:38

3. Literature in Digital Culture: Pedagogical Possibilities

   Literature in Digital Culture: Pedagogical Possibilities

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 06.04.2011 - 11:58

4. Literatures in the Digital Era: Theory and Praxis

   Literatures in the Digital Era: Theory and Praxis

   Theodoros Chiotis - 15.04.2011 - 21:34

5. Aesthetics and Literature: A Problematic Relation?

   The paper argues that there is a proper for literature within aesthetics but that care must be taken in identifying just what the relation is. In characterising aestehtic pleasure associating with literature it is all too easy to fall into reductive accounts, for example, of literature of merely "fine writing". Bellelettrist or formalistic accounts of literature are rejected, as are to other kinds of reduction, to pure meaning properties and to a kind of narrative realism. The idea is developed that literature - both poetry and prose fiction - invites its own distinctive kind of aesthetic appreciation which far from being at odds with critical practice, in fact chimes well with it.  

   Kristina Gulvik Nilsen - 18.10.2011 - 14:05

6. Modernisms: A Literary Guide

   The recent enthusiasm for things postmodern has often produced a caricature of Modernism as monolithic and reactionary. Peter Nicholls argues instead that the distinctive feature of Modernism is its diversity. Through a lively analysis of each of Modernism's main literary movements, he explores the connections between the new stylistic developments and the shifting politics of gender and authority.

   Meri Alexandra Raita - 19.03.2012 - 15:33

7. Grasping at Loose Bindings: Thoughts on Language, Literature, Communication in a Time of Change

   Davin Heckman is a Fulbright Scholar with Digital Culture this year, and will hold a lecture on his current research on Thursday, April 12, 2012.

   Heckman will discuss literature in a time of media change.  Part of an ongoing research project, this talk will explore the objective tendency of neoliberalism and the digital revolution, and the humanistic potential of emerging literary and critical practices.

   (Source: University of Bergen)

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 12.04.2012 - 12:09

8. Bookend; www.claptrap.com

   Bookend; www.claptrap.com

   Patricia Tomaszek - 29.04.2012 - 15:17

9. The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature

   The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 09.05.2012 - 08:25

10. Entre Ville: this city between us redux

    Hypermedia essay about Entre Ville, a work of digital literature created by J. R. Carpenter, commissioned, in 2006, by OBORO, a Gallery & New Media Lab in Montreal, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Conseil des arts de Montreal.

    J. R. Carpenter - 09.05.2012 - 13:34

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